Grade Essays Faster?!
Sunday Sit, Sip, and “Sync” ~ 1-15-2012
There it was.
In BIG, BOLD font.
“Grade Essays Faster”.
“Look, we can’t grade the essays for you, but we can reduce the repetitive, inefficient manual labor involved — and in doing so we open up a new world of invaluable student data.
Welcome to the future.”
Really?
I have friends who are English teachers.
I know how much time they spend grading papers.
Rough drafts.
Revised copies.
Final copies.
I don’t claim to know much more beyond fifth grade essays,
and what I had to write as a student, myself.
(Please don’t judge them. They tried.)
I do know that my teachers,
those who guided me, taught me, and encouraged me,
had to have put in countless hours reading and suggesting and correcting what I had written.
When I discovered this website, I thought it surely would be a tool that, as an English teacher, could be as valuable and indispensable as a calculator must be for a Math teacher.
Essaytagger.com is free during their “Beta Period”,
and that ends on February 1st.
Essaytagger.com is developed by Keith Mukai, M.Ed., a high school English teacher who is now the founder and CEO of EssayTagger.com.
Once the “Beta Period” ends, there will be a cost that is described here, in the FAQ Section.
Early adopters during this period will be “rewarded”.
Here are some quick links to videos that describe the program in more detail.
- Quick Overall Demo
- Creating Assignments and Rubrics
- Student Uploads
- Instructor Uploads
- Creating/Managing Rosters
- Rubric Drill-down Analytics
So, those of you who teach English,
or those of you who know English teachers,
I encourage you to check out this site and “share the love”.
Wouldn’t it be nice if more of us could “have a life”?
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